By enbilulu on

I want to learn web design. Now I work on php and css to learn something about them. But I'm new for now. What is the best and maybe easy way to create a drupal theme. Can I face any problem if I use artisteer because artisteer is good time saving. what do you recommend me.

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

If you really "want to learn web design" I would go with one of the base themes (there are several). Artisteer can be a real time saver but it produces ready to go themes so will not help you build web design skills.

enbilulu’s picture

enbilulu commented

I go Zen base theme. But my changes on it does not work. I change navigation.css file like below but my website doesnt change in anyway. I use 6.x-2.0-beta1 version of it

/*
 * The active item in a Drupal menu
 */
li a.active {
  color: #000022;
li a.hover {
  color: #999999
}


/*
 * Navigation bar
 */
#navigation {
  color:#4444FF
}

.region-navigation {
}

/*
 * Primary and Secondary menu links
 */
#main-menu {
background-color: #8b6914;
pitxels’s picture

pitxels commented

Web Design is not about the software you use for creating a theme.

Web design is about the graphic design of the content for the web media.

You can do that in a piece of paper, photoshop, etc.

If you want to learn how to create themes for drupal you can use artisteer (probably combined with photoshop)

BUT is what you want is to have control of every CSS detail and every drupal theme function and variable, then you will need time to learn CSS, XHTML, PHP and some base themes to study.

I am sure more solution like artisteer will appear and web design will be easier every day.

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Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

Seems to be a glaring irony in your last statement - first you say web design is not about software then finish by saying you hope more solutions like artiseer appear to make web design easier.

Joking around aside, yeah, i tend to agree with what you are saying here, and Nevets also, artiseer is not web design, unless you also consider doing a jigsaw puzzle or paint-by-numbers "design" also.

Both those aside I think what the OP is driving at is front end development in general, of which design might be one aspect - the other being theme development. So if you want to be a themer, forget artiseer and learn Drupal theming inside out, starter themes can be route to this but they are only half the story, playing with core and understanding at least the rudiments of Drupals theme system is very important, unless you only want to build simple themes with CSS only, which is just no fun :)

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